Migration Control Dialog
Migration Control Dialog Properties
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| Migration Progress | Indicates the completion status of the migration progress after Start Migration is selected. As each task of the database migration completes, the Migration Progress moves one bar. Some tasks take longer than others and this is reflected in the movement of the progress bar.
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| Status | When Start Migration is selected, a warning message is displayed. Click No to abort the migration. Click Yes to start the data migration. This field then displays each task of the migration process as it starts and finishes. It also indicates when the migration process started, ended, and how long it took. Each message in the Status field is logged. Errors are displayed in bold, italic, red text. Warnings are displayed in bold, italic, magenta text; and are repeated at the end of the migration.
The EDMT logs directory is located in the TEMP directory on the Windows system drive (typically C:\TEMP). The active log file is called c:\temp\edmt120.log. | ||
| Start Migration | Tests the entered database connection values by attempting to access the database or databases. All of the connection information was checked for validity when entered on its respective panels. The connections check reports whether the database connections were made or not in the migration Status field. A successful source database connection result is indicated by the following Status messages: Status: Checking the connection to the database dd1_sideA on <source hostname>:<source port> ... Displays miscellaneous messages ..... Database connection to the source verified OK A successful destination database connection result is indicated by the following Status messages: Status: Checking the connection to the database dd1_sideA on the destination <destination server> ... Displays miscellaneous messages ..... Database connection to the destination verified OK Verifying the source SQL Server and destination SQL Server using the same collation ... Both source and destination SQL Servers using the same collation (Latin1_General_BIN) If a problem occurs, go back to the appropriate panel and change the incorrect information. If the connections check passes, the database migration process starts. | ||
| Terminate Migration and Exit | Disabled until the migration process starts. When selected, a warning is displayed. Click No to continue migration. Click Yes to terminate migration and exit the tool. Once the database conversion process starts, you may interrupt the process by selecting Cancel. Cancelling the database conversion process causes the database to be in an inconsistent state. If this happens, you must perform the following:
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